Read more
Informationen zum Autor Peter M. Magolda was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University. He focused his scholarship on ethnographic studies of college students, critical issues in qualitative research, and program evaluation. He is author of The Lives of Campus Custodians and co-author of Contested Issues in Student Affairs, Contested Issues in Troubled Times, and It’s All About Jesus!: Faith as an Oppositional Collegiate Subculture, and has served on the editorial boards of Research in Higher Education and the Journal of Educational Research. He was an ACPA Senior Scholar inductee, and in 2013 received the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Mentoring Award. He also received Miami University’s Richard Delp Outstanding Faculty Member award, as well Alumni Award from The Ohio State University and Indiana University. We deeply mourn the loss of author, teacher, and friend Peter M. Magolda. Marcia B. Baxter Magolda is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Miami University of Ohio and a nationally recognized author and speaker on student development and learning. She received the American College Personnel Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Research Achievement Award in 2007, for her outstanding contribution to advancing student learning. Her scholarship addresses the evolution of learning and development in college and subsequent adult life, and educational practice to promote self-authorship. Her seventh and eighth books respectively are Authoring Your Life and Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship. Klappentext Augments traditional introductory handbooks that focus on functional areas and organizational issues and fills a void by addressing the social, educational and moral concepts and concerns of student affairs work that transcend content areas and administrative units, such as the tensions between theory and practice, academic affairs and student affairs, risk taking and failure. Zusammenfassung What is your level of understanding of the many moral, ideological, and political issues that student affairs educators regularly encounter? What are the theoretical perspectives you might choose and why? How do your responses compare with those of colleagues? Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE. Peter Magolda and Marcia Baxter Magolda, Miami University 1. WHAT COUNTS AS “ESSENTIAL” KNOWLEDGE FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS EDUCATORS? Intellectual Curiosity and Lifelong Learning—Marcia Baxter Magolda & Peter Magolda, Miami University Response—Jill Carnaghi, Washington University in St. Louis & Victor Boschini, Texas Christian University 2. HOW DOES THE PERCEPTION THAT LEARNING TAKES PLACE EXCLUSIVELY IN CLASSROOMS PERSIST? Expanding the Learning Environment—Mimi Benjamin, Cornell University & Florence Hamrick, Rutgers University Response—Laura Blake Jones, University of Michigan 3. HOW ARE DICHOTOMIES SUCH AS SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER AND THEORY-PRACTICE HELPFUL AND HARMFUL TO THE PROFESSION? Developing Professional Judgment—Gregory Blimling, Rutgers University Response—Ellen Broido, Bowling Green State University 4. IF STUDENT AFFAIRS-ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COLLABORATION IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA, WHY ARE THERE SO FEW EXAMPLES OF THESE PARTNERSHIPS IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION? Transforming Our Approach to Education. Cultivating Partnerships and Dialogue—Victor Arcelus, Gettysburg College Response—Jamie Lester, George Mason University PART TWO. CHALLENGES OF PROMOTING LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT 5. IN THIS AGE OF CONSUMERISM, WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF “GIVING STUDENTS WHAT THEY WANT?” Have it Your Way U—Tracy Davis, Western Illinois University Response—Lisa Boes, Harvard University 6. WHAT ARE THE RISKS AND BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH ALLOWING STUDENTS TO FAIL IF LEARNING RESULTS? Creative Learning for Challenging Times. The Promise and Peril of Risk—Michele Welkener, University of Day...
